FoundBite wins Alphalabs

Congratulations to James Mundy and his project FoundBite, winner of the Nokia / onedotzero WinMo dev competition, Alphalabs.

The app integrates sound, photography and mapping into an app which is designed to record something happening - rather like a permanent scrapbook.

Here's a quick description from James himself, on his Alphalabs entry page.

The idea behind FoundBite is to explore the world through sound. There are several photo sharing apps and services like Instagram and video sharing apps like YouTube, however I noticed there were none primarily focused towards sound – not music but the sounds we hear around us when we are out and about. Sound can be incredibly immersive and I hoped to portray that through this app.

When recording a sound you take a series of 5 photos of the scene you are in, giving people you share it with some visual references of what's going on – these photos can be taken at any given interval so you can be free to walk around a whole area recording what you see and hear. The recording will then stop after the fifth photo. The recording and the photos are then geo-tagged.

Here's how it works.

James wins five grand - winners of the £500 prizes are:

• Drum Machine
• Tell DJ
• Positron
• Recordroid
• :) or :(
• Frosty Window
• Accelojazz
• Beatbox Sampler
• This is my story
• BBC Podcast

All fine projects indeed, and congrats to the winners.

Keith Varty of Nokia said: "I am delighted with the output from the Alphalabs competition and congratulations to the winner, Foundbite, with their unique combination of photography, location and sound recordings. Thanks also goes out to the 10 runners up and everyone else who entered."

We'll definitely be keeping an eye on the winners as upcoming digital / art practitioners.